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Exploring Civil Rights Movement History Worksheet

This worksheet covers major events of the Civil Rights Movement, key information from text, and important figures like Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King Jr. Includes discussion questions.

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Exploring Civil Rights Movement History Worksheet

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  1. Do Now: Grab a Worksheet and do the ‘Do Now’ Objectives: Students will be able to…(1) explain major events of the civil rights movement (2) identify key information from text Homework: Keep working on projects (DUE April 1)

  2. “Separate but Equal” “Separate but Equal”

  3. “Jim Crow” laws – Nickname for Segregation Laws

  4. De facto segregation –Segregation by custom/tradition

  5. NAACP (National Association for Advancement of Colored People) – Supported Court Cases • More political power – Great Migration • CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) – Founded by James Farmer and George Houser • Used Sit-ins – a form of protest The Origins of the Movement

  6. Thurgood Marshall – Chief Counsel/Director of legal defense and education fund for NAACP • Linda Brown – Denied access to school (Topeka Kansas) • Case reversed Plessy vs. Ferguson • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTGHLdr-iak Brown vs. Board of Education

  7. “Massive Resistance” against desegregation • Abused Supreme Court Ruling – “with deliberate speed” • Southern Manifesto – 99 Southern Members of Congress Signed • Pledge to use “all lawful means” to reverse decision Southern Manifesto

  8. Spawned from Rosa Parks incident • Boycott organized of busses in Montgomery, Alabama • Martin Luther King Jr. (26) – Put in charge Montgomery Bus Boycotts

  9. Pastor • Believed in Non-Violent protests (Crucial) • Who did he draw on for this notion? • Part of SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) – Collection of churches that helped fight segregation Martin Luther King Jr.

  10. Eisenhower – sympathized with civil rights • Disagreed with protests and court rulings (Needed to be Natural) • Thought it would lead to violence and splitting of country • Civil Rights Act 1957 – Impacted voting discrimination • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oodolEmUg2g (Little Rock Nine) Crisis In Little Rock

  11. Final Discussion Questions

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